Apple Patches Beats Studio Buds Flaw Letting Nearby Attackers Spy via Microphone

Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20701 (CVSS score: 8.8), refers to a case of incorrect authorization impacting the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK that makes it possible to pair a Bluetooth audio device without user consent.

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15,000 WordPress Websites Cleaned Up in SocGholish Botnet Takedown 

Law enforcement and private partners took down 106 SocGholish C&C servers and domains as part of Operation Endgame.

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Splunk Enterprise Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks Days After Disclosure

CISA has given federal agencies only three days to patch CVE-2026-20253, which can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution.

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Killing me gently: Inside Gentlemen’s EDR killer framework

ESET Research shares the results of a months-long investigation into the suite of EDR killers maintained by the RaaS gang Gentlemen

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I’m a smart home reviewer, and these are the only deals I’m shopping this Prime Day

It’s Amazon Prime Day, and smart home deals are everywhere. But don’t fall for any deal: these are the ones worth your time and money.

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Google Home Speaker vs. Amazon Echo Dot Max: I compared the $99 smart hubs by the specs

Both Google and Amazon have generative AI-powered smart speakers for under $100, so which one stands out?

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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

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Operation Escaneo Signals Shift in LatAm Threat Landscape

The threat group’s curious business model may combine opportunistic monetization alongside intel collection, without much coordination between the two.

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MacBook Neo vs Windows Laptops for Cybersecurity Tasks

There is no one-size-fits-all cybersecurity laptop. We’ll examine real-world work scenarios, tool compatibility, and trade-offs that impact a security professional’s day-to-day work.

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Novo Nordisk Breach Exposes Software Development Pipeline Risk

A leaked GitHub token underscores what most organizations get wrong: Treating secrets management as a tooling problem rather than an identity problem.

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